BREAKING NEWS: Two hurricanes in North America

Gulf Storm Prompts Oil-Platform Evacuations as Hurricane Katia Heads West

Two hurricanes forming at the same time - as usual silence in the New Zealand media.

Bloomberg

September 2, 2011

A low-pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico that will probably strengthen into a storm within two days is shutting down some oil and gas output, while in the Atlantic Katia is forecast to grow into a major hurricane.

The Gulf system has an 80 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm in the next 48 hours as it moves northwestward, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 2 p.m. Eastern time.

“Parts of the Gulf of Mexico’s offshore oil- and gas- producing areas could experience gales for four or five days,” said Joe Bastardi, chief meteorologist for New York-based WeatherBell Analytics. He said the system “will be very slow to move before finally making up its mind to move out of the area,” and it’s still not known where the disturbance will go.

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